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An Amherst man was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Blue Ridge Parkway Saturday.

Festival Of Balloons

LFD Celebrates Arrival Of New Tower Truck

Local Resident Had Worked At Buffalo Creek Boys School

Lexington’s efforts to repair or upgrade the city’s sewer system to limit inflow and infiltration into the system has moved to the next phase: relining sewer pipes in the Providence Hill area.

GiveSolar Installs Panels On Two More Homes

7-Eleven Planned For Timber Ridge

July 1 has come and gone, we’re in a new fiscal year and Virginia still doesn’t have a budget. Sure, the state does technically have a biennial budget approved by the General Assembly in 2022 that remains in effect, but what to do with billions in surplus funds has yet to be decided.

50 Years Ago

You open your bank statement to do your monthly account reconciliation, (yes, you do this religiously every month), and you see a check you don’t recognize. It’s not in your check register as a paper check or debit transaction. You don’t recognize the payee. You realize that it’s a very clever forgery – the image of the check has the correct bank routing number and your account number, and even your printed name and address and the bank name - but it’s not your check. And it’s for a significant amount of money.

TCO Service Recognized

At Roots And Shoots

Evelyn Ayres

Carolyn Bradley, 258-2720

June 28, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Public utility corporations are different in different states. Here in Virginia, our PUC is called the State Corporation Commission, and has three members who are appointed by the governor with the authority to regulate utilities.

“Agriculture is Virginia’s number one industry” is a statement often repeated when we speak of agriculture’s importance to the region and the truth of this statement is derived from economic measures of farm output and value-added products produced in Virginia. By these conventional economic measures, agriculture’s preeminence in Virginia’s economy appears to be largely derived from the value-added poultry and pork products and the employment these food industries bring to the communities where they are located.

Faye Elizabeth Anderson Harris Ford passed gently June 30, 2023, in Lexington.

Major David Cecil Underwood, Jr. (U.S. Army, Ret.), Son of the American Revolution, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, died on June 9, 2023, in his beloved Virginia after a stunning, year-long valiant battle with cancer that entirely eroded his jaw and neck. He was 52.

James Hanna Gum, 86, of Goshen, passed away Friday, June 30, 2023, at his home.

Nadine Reynolds Goodbar, 91, of Lexington moved on to her heavenly home on Thursday, June 29, 2023. She passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her family.

Loving husband and father Tommy Paul Rubenalt, 79, of Buena Vista passed away July 3, 2023.